Cousins in Gaines County marijuana bust agree to state prosecution

Federal charges remain against Margaretha Reimer.

Federal drug charges have been dismissed against a pair of cousins arrested in December after they collected a shipment of marijuana in Seminole.

U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings dismissed charges against Peter Giesbrecht Reimer, 35, and Peter Giesbreicht Reimer, 21, at the request of federal prosecutors because the cousins have agreed to state prosecution.

Both were charged with conspiring to distribute less than 50 kilograms of marijuana and possession with intent.

They, along with Margaretha Gresbreich Reimer, were arrested Dec. 12 after they took possession of a small pickup in Seminole with 109 pounds of marijuana hidden in the gas tank. The shipment had been intercepted at the Presidio port of entry, and the driver agreed to let federal agents trail the vehicle to its destination.

Margaretha Reimer, the younger Peter Reimer’s mother and elder Peter Reimer’s aunt, is being held without bail in the Lubbock County Detention Center.

Margaretha Reimer was on federal supervised release at the time of her arrest after pleading guilty in 2011 to a federal charge of smuggling bulk cash into Mexico.